The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky "A veritable storehouse of source material on nearly every aspect of the conception, planning, and writing of Crime and Punishment." ? The New York Times. This key to understanding Dostoyevsky's masterpiece offers facsimile pages plus interpretations of the author's schematic plans of major portions of the novel, deleted scenes, and reflections ... more »on philosophical and religious ideas.« less